Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot (Gift Article)

Amazing! The source who gave the NYT its story about Peltola's campaign stacking the ballot is the campaign manager Peltola fired and is now suing for wrongful termination. And this ex-campaign manager tried to back out as a source just before publication! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

How embarrassing for NYT—their source for this story retracted and says it isn't true. Maybe they should just pull it?

Peltola camp has denied involvement in the other Sullivan's campaign. But interviews, text messages and documents show that not only did her team work with people trying to recruit Sullivan to run for Senate, the effort was much broader. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Every day, Trump violates laws and norms on the campaign trail. And he’s a rapist But, sure, let’s write thousands of words about a totally legal dirty trick. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Peltola campaign was behind the effort to find & recruit a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent GOP Senator Dan S. Sullivan, NYT reports: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

I'm not saying that recruiting a spoiler Dan Sullivan to run for Senate in Alaska is what *I* would have done, but "this is legal and actually happens a lot" is a wild To Be Sure paragraph to bury in what's framed as a big, splashy expose of partisan skullduggery www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

People always ask about things labelled as conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. I think we've got another one on our hands:

I can’t BELIEVE i have to live through this dumb 💩 Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Comically stupid NYT reporting, mostly along the lines that the Petola campaign is campaigning for Petola.

"Ballot-stacking tactics are common in politics and generally considered legal — and have been employed by both parties in Alaska. But this operation, which has not been reported before, reveals the lengths to which Democrats went to seek advantage in a Senate race" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Three thoughts about the NYT's story that the Peltola campaign recruited a ringer. First, why did Elisa Rios, the Times' main source, retract what she told them? I know the Times says they verified the story independently, but what was that all about? (1/3) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Quite a Democratic Party stench coming from Alaska now over the second Dan Sullivan candidacy. Plays right into Trump's hands.... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Sorry, Ms. Rios, but sourcing doesn't work this way. (From the NYT story on how Democrats worked to get another Dan Sullivan on the Alaska ballot) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

This is real progress for the Democratic Party, tbh. Oh, we're not new to ratfucking like the NY Times is acting. We're new to ratfucking REPUBLICANS. Usually we are kneecapping each other while issuing stern letters about Republican ratfucking. More of this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

The morality of ballot stacking in any form aside, Republicans should absolutely be recruiting every Donald Trump in America they can find to run for office. This might actually be Don Jr.'s strongest electoral argument.

NYT - Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Alaska, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Pretty sure that there are some NYT editors from Boston. Ringers are part of politics. BTW, I’m available, for a fee, to run against any better-known Kennedy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

WTF. Seit Wochen streut Trump wildeste Verschwörungslügen über Wahlfälschung (während er selber überall manipuliert) - und nun leisten sich die Demokraten diese offene Flanke: Ein namensgleicher Kandidat zur Verwirrung der Wähler. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

While this story goes into great detail abt the seemy but mostly legal practice of ballot stacking, I didn’t see any effort to explain that Alaska uses a ranked-choice voting system, so voters who wanted to pick Dan Sullivan could mark both & the vote would accrue to the top vote-getting Sullivan.

Quite a story in the NY Times today: Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Important story: Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot @kellen.bsky.social

It's not til you're 2/3 of the way through that you learn that: 1) one of the key sources has recanted, and 2) ballot stacking is customary and legal. This isn't journalism. It's a partisan hit piece. I expected better of the NYT.

Mary Peltola is a good politician, but if you are gonna run a secret Dan Sullivans op, don't fire people who know about it. Big screw up. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

"In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Peltola, the Alaska Democrat who was eyeing a run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can."

oh come the fuck on "Ballot-stacking tactics are common in politics and generally considered legal — and have been employed by both parties in Alaska." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Deeply weird story, with a primary source that fully recanted just before publication, from the paper still tiptoeing around fresh evidence the president is a serial rapist www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

👇 @theswprincess.bsky.social with more details... Plus her NYT gifted link - 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

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How much of the story did the reporter base on Elisa Rios,who had been fired from the Peltola campaign & then withdrew everything she had told him The Old Gray Lady lost its credibility when Judith Miller conspired w/Bush II’s lie about WMDs to justify invading Iraq www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Welp! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Because they are too busy trying to undermine the elections: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

This reporting by @kellen.bsky.social Browning at the @nytimes.com is perilously close to the “but her emails!” character assassination they did in 2016. So, on brand with a newspaper that has demonstrated they would gladly see the world burn if it generated clicks. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Das dreckige Lachen im Hintergrund ist von mir. Die Demokraten haben in Alaska wohl einen Kandidaten mit beinahe-Namensgleichheit zum republikanischen Amtsinhaber aufgestellt. 😂😂😂😂

Good. It's about time we played a little hardball. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

"In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Peltola, the Alaska Democrat who was eyeing a run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

@marypeltola.com You lied and said you had no involvement. Even the NY Times, liberal rag, shows your campaign was behind it along with the DNC. #alaska www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Peltola campaign really offering a glimpse of two completely different ends of the campaign grunt spectrum here. You've got the maximally cutthroat ratfucking operation *and* the people drawing the line at lizard maintenance. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

The "Paper of Record" putting their thumb on the scales again I see www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

If I was an Alaskan, I would vote @osullyville.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Big @nytimes.com article today on the Alaska US Senate race: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Former NYT tech and games reporter with probably one of the biggest stories of the election cycle? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

alaska emailed me and @egoldwyn.bsky.social to be senators, bc we are the only living people with our names in the world. we declined. eric for family reasons. i declined bc a diet rich in colloidal silver has made me allergic to the magnetosphere. oh well www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Wow! Should we be upset or gleeful that Dems are behaving like Republicans? Hard to know how to feel. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Sure sounds like the NYT is working for Trump and Blanche🤬 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Somehow, the NYT forgot to include the fact that with Alaska's ranked choice voting system, mischief of this type is ineffective. But perhaps one can still make mischief by publishing a "scandal" just before an election. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

So, Democrats are playing hardball? It’s about time. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Jim Lottsfeldt (political operative) who I’ve been saying for years is a complete a$$hole and has involved himself with Matt Schultz and literally every campaign including Murkowski. He sees himself as some sort of guru who wants influence with every politician in Alaska. I can’t stand him.

Maybe: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

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Elon’s Twitter cesspool is exploding over this. What am I missing? How is it illegal or a crime?? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

This is what I think: DO NOT DO THIS!!! We are already accused of cheating. Please don’t give any ammo to the Republicans! Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

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Leave it to the f*cking New York Times to do what they can to tilt the election in favor of the power structure they want to serve. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

no, the NYT is watching but only to bolster Trump's case that "the Democrats cheated" also, it looks like the governor just ordered a criminal investigation into the Peltola campaign (as a result of this NYT article) I'm pretty sure Alaska is lost to Democrats here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Stop the bullshit cheating dammit! WTF! Drop out now! You just gave MAGA all the excuses in the world to claim Dems cheated. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Wait, so the Democrats can do this stuff too? Who knew? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Here's the article. I hope you're right! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Does anybody think Mary Peltola or her campaign did anything wrong. Neither do I. She did what politicians have done forever; find an edge. And his name is Dan Sullivan. Screw Todd Blanche and his investigation. She will win…fairly and legally. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

The NYT seems intent on knee- capping Mary Peltola’s campaign in Alaska. Three articles now based on a disgruntled ex employee. Meanwhile, the sitting president has a credible new rape allegation against him and they have not covered it. Fuck the NYT!

I'm not necessarily mad with the candidate. I'm kinda furious with the campaign and the now fired campaign manager. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

She’s dropped in the polls since the story dropped, but she still leads, so it hurt her. Daniel Sullivan, who isn’t the incumbent senator, wouldn’t have qualified for the runoff if one of the other candidates hadn’t dropped out, and mostly Dems voted for him. Anyone confused can rank the Dans.

Nothing wrong here. Hardball meets hardball. If your voters don't know what Incumbent means then that says all we need to know. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Wow ... For the sake of Kellen Browning and the New York Times' financial futures, this article better be factually accurate www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

as we all know, democrats doing politics is illegal:

Yeah, whatever, spare me the "fight fire with fire" reactions. This is bad. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

How many incumbents with the same name are there in Alaska? Only one! Seriously, you’d have to be brainless not to know who you want to vote for

This is an incredibly stupid move by the Peltola campaign. And going to be a setback to ranked-choice-voting efforts around the country. Morons. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

The NYT used a blander headline than "stacked" when talking about the new evidence that Trump is involved in abusing children. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

this schoolboy stuff isn't great for Democracy but i doubt it matters very much. my big takeaway here is that peltola was absolutely correct to fire her campaign manager, elisa rios, who subsequently handed this story to the times!

No it probably makes distinguishing between the two easier. So hard to see how that helps the GOP. What DOES help the GOP is a new NYT article on Peltola’s recruitment of the Second Sullivan into the race. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Lot going on in this story, too. Not sure how reliable any of the sources are, frankly.

Auch die Demokraten machen Sachen, die einfach nicht in Ordnung sind. Hier wird zwar kein Gesetz gebrochen, aber das Ziel der Kampagne ist Wählertäuschung. Wer wirklich an Demokratie interessiert ist, sollte sowas lassen. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

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Times Exclusive Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Here's some Dems playing real hardball. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u... I love it, finally Democrats are coming to the gun fight with guns. Ratpublicans don’t like it with the other side play like they do, dirty!

More than 3,200 comments on this @nytimes.com piece on how the Dems recruited a Dan Sullivan to mess with ballot. My favorite comment: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

In case anyone was wondering how the Democratic Party was going to trip over its own dick in its effort to win a majority in the U.S. Senate… —> Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Ja, de campagnestaf van de Democratische senaatkandidaat in Alaska bekonkelde inderdaad dat er naast Dan Sullivan, de Republikein, nóg een Dan Sullivan - ook Republikein - op het stembiljet kwam. New York Times heeft documenten en appjes boven water getakeld. Zélfs Trump heeft wel eens gelijk.

full story: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Found one: 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Here ya go, courtesy a disgruntled staffer and the press which apparently can’t stop itself from providing October surprises www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

This is apparently legal and, more to the point, hilarious. "How are we going to flip Alaska?" "Take advantage of a common name!"

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It’d be easy to laugh at Alaskans for being susceptible to such tactics, but candidate/party confusion is exactly how David Leyonhjelm got elected to the Australian Senate. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

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When I first read this I was pretty disgruntled with Mary Peltola's campaign. I believe/d in "when they go low we go high" mantra. But after thinking about this for several hours, I'm okay with this. I've see worse happen in elementary school electiions. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Gift article (full of *clandestine operatives sneaking around Alaska*🙄😶) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

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Shame on the NYT who published this hit piece on the Democrats right before the midterms! It’s a tactic that Rick Wilson has said he used when he was a republican! Fuck the times .. I’m done 😡 Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

Here’s a gift link to the article. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

If the author had OPENED his story with the fact that the primary accuser was a fired employee suing against dismissal, AND she had also recanted her previous statements, the story would have had very little "breaking news" appeal. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

This is thinking outside the electoral box - www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

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I hope this revelation before Election Day doesn’t tank Peltola. It is almost always the republicans who are the “dirty tricksters” (Hearken back to Roger Stone). I am actually glad to see democrats (hopefully) beating them at their own game. It’s about time. 🤣 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u...

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/u... I'm not surprised - are you???

The NYT is trying to block her